Widener Delaware Law student receives public service award from Philadelphia Bar Association section

December 22, 2015

HOCKESS COMMUNITY NEWS – Bethany Wigfield, a third-year Delaware Law School student, received a 2015 Law Student Award from the Public Interest Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

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West Virginia Law Land Use and Sustainable Development Clinic to expand free legal aid to Beckley, WV

December 22, 2015

THE REGISTER-HERALD – West Virginia University plans to bring a portion of its law clinics to Beckley next fall, which could provide free legal aid to area residents.

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Washburn Law’s tax clinic helps low income tax payers retain health care coverage

December 22, 2015

WIBW (TOPEKA) – Washburn University law students took time out of their day to help residents filed their 2014 tax returns.

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University of St. Thomas Law immigration appellate clinic helps detained immigrant client reunite with family

December 22, 2015

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS – Clinical students from the University of St. Thomas School of Law Immigration Appellate Clinic secured a sweeping victory for their detained immigrant client this week, preserving the unity of his family.

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Students from Michigan Law’s international refugee assistance project speak out against state efforts to stop refugee resettlement

December 22, 2015

THE DETROIT NEWS – “We chose the University of Michigan Law School to advocate for the rights of the most vulnerable refugees. Michigan Law offers unique opportunities to serve refugee communities. Within our first week of law school in 2013, we represented refugees as student attorneys through the International Refugee Assistance Project University of Michigan…

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Michigan Law School innocence clinic seeks new trial for man convicted of murder amid new evidence

December 22, 2015

WDIV (DETROIT) – The Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school is seeking a new trial for a man convicted of killing a 12-year-old Detroit girl nearly 20 years ago.

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Law students represent wrongly convicted through SUNY Buffalo Innocence Project

December 22, 2015

BUFFALO BUSINESS FIRST – The Innocence and Justice Project is a groundbreaking initiative of the Advocacy Institute at SUNY Buffalo Law School that provides law students with an opportunity to represent people who are incarcerated but believe that they have been wrongfully convicted. While there are national organizations working to exonerate such prisoners, no other…

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Tulane Law students help combat cultural artifact looting in Cambodia through international program

December 21, 2015

TULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL – This rare opportunity for law students to get immersed in the world of combating antiquities looting is possible through a partnership between Tulane Law School and the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts.

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Former externs in Mississippi Law clinical program oversee current law student externs

December 15, 2015

The University of Mississippi School of Law – The Clinical Externship Program, established at the law school in 2002, has former externs who have graduated and are working in district attorney’s offices throughout the state. Having come full-circle in their careers in law, these prosecutors now supervise externs from the UM School of Law’s Class…

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Harvard Law student activists seek changes regarding minority treatment and representation

December 15, 2015

BOSTON.COM – Members of the Harvard Law School community and the group called “Reclaim Harvard Law” hosted a rally Monday after demands they presented to the administration Friday were not met.

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